Our Privacy Policy
Adam + Sparkes Town Planning + Development – A.B.N 39 290 334 500
(Adam + Sparkes Town Planning + Development, we, our, us) recognise the importance of protecting the privacy and the rights of individuals in relation to their personal information.
We respect your rights to privacy under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act) and we comply with all of the Act’s requirements in respect of the collection, management and disclosure of your personal information.
We collect the minimum amount of information about you that is necessary to provide the relevant services we offer.
This privacy policy explains how we manage personal information that we collect about you.
Please read this privacy policy before using our website or submitting any personal information.
By using the website, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy.
You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the website to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.
What is your personal information?
When used in this privacy policy, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Act.
In general terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you.
This may include your name, address, telephone number and email address.
If the information we collect personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered personal information.
What personal information do we collect and hold?
The types of personal information we collect depends on the type of service, support or enquiry you make and may include your name, address, telephone number and email address, dates of service provided, types of service provided, payment history, manner of payment, amount of payments, date of payments, domain name, credit card or other payment information.
Financial information will be transferred only be used to pay for the products and services you have purchased.
If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider.
All sensitive information is collected on a secure server and data is encrypted using industry standard 256-bit encryption.
We do not disclose, sell or offer any personal information obtained about you to third parties.
We may disclose information to the appropriate authorities if required to do so by law.
How do we collect & store your personal information?
We collect your personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so.
When collecting personal information from you, we may collect it via interaction through our website, during conversations between you and our sales or support teams or when you complete a transaction.
We hold personal information electronically and in hard copy form, both at our own premises and with the assistance of our service providers.
We implement a range of measures to protect the security of that personal information.
We also take measures in respect of destroying or de-identifying personal information that is no longer needed for any lawful purpose.
Cookies
In some cases we may also collect your personal information through the use of cookies.
When you access our website, we may send a “cookie” (which is a small summary file containing a unique ID number) to your computer.
We use cookies to help us deliver a personalised service and for other analytical purposes such as the measurement of traffic patterns, to determine which areas of our website have been visited and to measure transaction patterns in the aggregate.
Our cookies do not collect personal information.
If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser so that your computer does not accept them.
Please note if your browser is set to not accept cookies, this may disable some of the functionality of our website.
We may log IP addresses (that is, the electronic addresses of computers connected to the internet) to analyse trends, administer the website, track users movements, and gather broad demographic information.
What happens if we can’t collect your personal information?
If you do not provide us with the personal information described above, we may not be able to provide the requested products or services to you, either to the same standard or at all.
Additionally, we may not be able to provide you with information about products and services that you may want, including information about discounts, sales or special promotions.
For what purposes do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
We collect personal information about you so that we can perform our business activities and functions and to provide best possible quality of customer service.
We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
– to provide products and services to you and to send communications requested by you;
– to provide support or to answer enquiries and provide information or advice about existing and new products or services;
– to provide you with access to the services you may purchase from us;
– for administrative, billing, marketing (including direct marketing), planning and product or service development purposes;
– to update our records and keep your contact details up to date;
– to process and respond to any complaint made by you;
– to comply with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority of any country (or political sub-division of a country);
– to provide user support.
Your personal information will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
To whom may we disclose your information?
We may disclose your personal information to our employees or service providers for the purposes of delivering a service to you, fulfilling requests by you, and providing support to you as required.
All reasonable precautions are taken to prevent unauthorised access to your information.
Direct marketing materials
We may send you direct marketing communications and information about our products and services that we consider may be of interest to you.
These communications may be sent in various forms, including mail, SMS, fax and email, in accordance with applicable marketing laws, such as the Spam Act 2003 (Cth).
If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, we will endeavour to use that method whenever practical to do so.
In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by contacting us (see the details below) or by using opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications and we will then ensure that your name is removed from our mailing list.
We do not provide your personal information to other organisations for the purposes of direct marketing.
How can you access and correct your personal information?
You may request access to any personal information we hold about you at any time by contacting us (see the details below).
Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you).
We will not charge for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information.
If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request us to amend it.
Where you seek a response from us, we will let you know who will be handling your matter and when you can expect a full response.
In the case of access and correction requests, please provide as much detail as you can about the particular information you seek in order to help us retrieve it.
Under the Privacy Act and other relevant laws, we are required to provide our reasons if we refuse your request.
Where we decide not to make a requested correction and you disagree, you may ask us to make a note of your requested correction with the information.
There may be instances where we cannot grant you access to the personal information we hold.
For example, we may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or if it would result in a breach of confidentiality.
If that happens, we will give you written reasons for any refusal.
What is the process for complaining about a breach of privacy?
If you believe that your privacy has been breached, please contact us using the contact information below and provide details of the incident so that we can investigate it.
Do we disclose your personal information to anyone outside Australia?
We may disclose personal information to third party service providers located in the USA for some of the purposes listed above.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.
Security
We take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
We may hold your information in either electronic or hard copy form.
Personal information is destroyed or de-identified when no longer needed.
As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online.
We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet.
Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.
Links
Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties.
We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third party website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party website.
Third party websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement
We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law.
We will disclose any information about our customers upon receipt of a valid request by government or law officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including without limitation subpoenas), to protect your property and rights, or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or stop activity we consider illegal or unethical.
Contacting us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or a complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy or a possible breach of your privacy, please use the contact link on our website or contact our Privacy Officer using the details set out below.
We will treat your requests or complaints confidentially.
We will contact you within a reasonable time after receipt of your complaint to discuss your concerns and outline options regarding how they may be resolved.
We will aim to ensure that your complaint is resolved in timely and appropriate manner.
Please contact our Privacy Officer at:
Privacy Officer – Adam + Sparkes Town Planning + Development
Email: admin@astpd.com.au
Changes to our privacy policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any updated versions of this privacy policy will be posted on our website.
This privacy policy was last updated on 1 May 2018.